While Stanford was basking in winning at least a share of the title for a 13th straight season, Cal was celebrating its first women's Pac-12 basketball championship in school history.

"This is better than anything I could have imagined because this entire team has worked for every ounce of this," Bears coach Lindsay Gottlieb said after Cal's 78-50 win over Washington in Seattle.

Talia Caldwell made 10 of 11 shots and finished with 22 points, and Gennifer Brandon had 12 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Bears (27-2) to their 15th consecutive victory.

"I'm just so happy for this team and this program and the Cal administration who backed this sport when Cal was last years ago and said we're going to make it a priority," Gottlieb said, while her cellphone continually dinged with congratulatory messages, including one from Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer. "You don't ever expect a moment like this, but it was everything you would expect it to be."

Cal had finished second three times since women's basketball became an official conference sport in the 1986-87 Pac-10 season.

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Chiney Ogwumike had 28 points and 13 rebounds in the Cardinal's 72-50 rout of Washington State in Pullman.

It's the first time since 2004 that Stanford has not won the regular-season conference title outright. The Cardinal shared the title with Arizona that year.

"It's great, I owe it to my players," VanDerveer said of winning another championship.

Stanford (28-2), by virtue of a higher overall winning percentage, will be the No. 1 seed in the Pac-12 tournament with Cal the No. 2 seed.

Ogwumike broke Stanford's single-season rebound record with (389). Her sister, Nneka, set the previous record (376) in the 2009-10 season.

"What can you say about Chiney, she is so difficult to guard, she scores and rebounds and gets knocked around. And she does it all with a smile on her face," Washington State coach June Daugherty said. "We call her the smiling assassin."

UCLA 74, Arizona 69: Shabazz Muhammad scored 18 points and the host Bruins (22-7, 12-4 Pac-12) held off the No. 11 Wildcats (23-6, 11-6) to move into a first-place tie in the conference with Oregon.

Kansas State 64, Baylor 61: After host Baylor's length-of-the-court inbound pass went out of bounds without being touched with one second on the clock, Kansas State's Rodney McGruder hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the No. 13 Wildcats (24-5, 13-3 Big 12) the victory. McGruder had 18 points.

Louisiana Tech 88, San Jose State 61: Raheem Appleby scored 16 points and the No. 25 Bulldogs (26-3, 16-0 Western Athletic Conference) extended the nation's longest winning streak to 18 games, clinching at least a share of their first WAC championship with a win against the visiting Spartans (9-18, 3-13).

Xavier Jones led San Jose State with 14 points, while D.J. Brown and Chris Cunningham each had 10. The Spartans shot only 32 percent in losing their 12th in a row.